UKMT Summer 2023 - Too fat and woke to fight

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Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

winegums posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65775251

Schofield with an incredibly sympathetic interview on the BBC. I don't know if he has excellent PR people or if the press machinery wants to keep the lid on this a bit, but I think he might be able to pull off a "disgraced, broken, retiring in grief" vibe. Interview focusing very heavily on homophobia, calling it a "workplace fling", and focusing very little on how this child got his job working with Schofield.

his crisis managament ppl have played a blinder; it's mad that his brother is currently in prison for the EXACT same crime and yet he's going to skate on it completely

has anyone else seen a really big push of 'aww leave him alone' on twitter from soft left/centrist types (eg. steve bray) who otherwise have never mentioned him before or since. i assume theyre all just getting paid upfront by his pr people

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 12:28

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:55

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Failed Imagineer posted:

I trust Popbitch more than 100% of the other British press

i mean i kind of do insofar as they were reporting about jimmy savile pretty consistently for two decades while everybody else rigidly stuck to the 'loveable eccentric' line

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 16:01

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

little purpose in argueing around the point. we've only got his verson of events; if the lad or any of the alleged others come forward with a different version of events then that will change if they don't then it is what it is.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2023 16:08

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Private Speech posted:

Fun fact, manufacturing cost inflation is only around 3% and energy costs have gone down/are stable, at least if Financial Times is to be believed. Any further inflation has nothing to do with either really.

it's mostly being driven by profiteering: witness the gap between base rate and mortgage rates being at all time highs while savings rates (which would help with inflationary pressure!) are at historic lows vs base rate

mainstream politicians are completely forbidden from interfering in the rate of profit tho via various mechanisms; politicians role is to sell the situation to an angry public which is what theyre vigourously doing. it's no coincidence that basically every measure theyve announced (or that labour is proposing) is orthogonal to banking profits

Rustybear fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Jun 27, 2023

# ¿ Jun 27, 2023 14:08

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

does anyone remember the gbs anonymous confession thread? there was a monkey torture confession in there that got a lot of traction from being so completely out there. I wrote it off as fiction at the time and now im feeling bad that it was probably real

# ¿ Jun 29, 2023 17:11

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

fuctifino posted:

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Saturday's wedding

I'm seeing quite a few people who regularly read Cummings' blogposts who are saying that it's 100% Cummings behind the email.

It would be lol if true

no idea how theyve come to that conclusion

you dont need to be colombo to spot the multiple references to his poor long suffering wife frances etc. most of it seems to turn on various points of contention about how he acted on this and that family holiday or with his kids a decade ago etc + the extreme vitriol towards his new wife and attempt to ruin their wedding day.

who could it possibly be!?!?!

# ¿ Jul 7, 2023 09:36

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

who could possibly still bear a grudge about his apparent failure to parent his kids properly on a holiday to greece in 2013

# ¿ Jul 7, 2023 09:38

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

The Question IRL posted:

This is going to sound awful, but I read that Pastebin article, and I just thought so what.

Like I get that it has the timing and presentation of something from a Soap Opera, but 95% of it reads like the sort of emails that both parties write to their lawyers in a heated family law case.
About the only thing vaguely shocking is the innuendo about something that sounds like statutory rape (or in one case, actual rape.)

And while that is serious, it's just a hearsay implication as opposed to an out and out accusation.

Don't get me wrong, Osborne sounds awful and is certainly a dickhead who should be forced to wear a high vis jacket on nights out that says "STAY AWAY, I WILL TRY AND SHAG YOU!'
But it just seems like a whole lot of nonsesense but it's getting love from the media as it involves their kind of people and is dressed up like a soap opera plot twist.

oh for sure it's pure Hello! gossip, other than the 'age gap discourse' parts

the whole thing read a bit mrs rochester to me - maybe his new wife is comfortable with a more modern relationship?? either way lol, lmao

# ¿ Jul 7, 2023 10:57

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Dabir posted:

Starlink is a money-sink scam to get money out of the government. It uses a ridiculous number of satellites to provide coverage that other providers are managing with a handful. These satellites are short-lived junk that are clogging up the sky and ruining ground-based astronomy. The ground dish is a non-repairable unit that even professionals can't tear down without outright destroying them - you can't even replace the cable without getting a new dish. It also fails in high temperatures (like what big swathes of the US are currently experiencing) and low temperatures (so Svalbard is right out, sorry).

Elon Musk is a con artist, a nazi, and a friend to pedophiles if not one himself.

i hate elon as much as the next right thinking person but this is horseshit sorry

Inmarsat will give you similar data rates but charge you 10x for the privilege and the coverage isn�t as good. Intelsat and iridium data rates are orders of magnitude slower. Oneweb has burnt through the full gen1 constellation without providing a consumer service (including sucking down a huge wedge of taxpayer cash in the process). Telesat are still talking on paper after ten years.

Starlink works and at a price point which competes with the terrestrial market. They are nearly a generation ahead the competition and not slowing down. They�re about to be the first to get intersatelite links working and beam hopping wont be far behind

The impact on ground-based astronomy is poo poo tho :/

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 22:16

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Leo has a high density of debris but it decays quickly and (to a certain extent) self regulates; meo is the guilty party for long term debris pollution

They might mean spectrum congestion tho idk, still shouldnt be a concern to anyone who isn�t a specialist being paid to manage it

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 22:38

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

OwlFancier posted:

That is actually a problem as I believe the satellites obstruct telescopes, and depending on where you launch satellites it creates a problem whereby the orbit around earth gets increasingly filled with fast moving objects, which if they collide will destroy anything else we want to put in space.

The big threat is the possibility of this becoming a runaway problem, as one collision could shatter the objects into thousands of smaller pieces, each of which could go on to impact more objects and create more fragments, resulting in a deadly belt of debris encircling the planet. The more impacts, the more fragments, which means more frequent impacts, creating a runaway effect.

Lower orbits are safer because the earth's atmospheric edge will slowly decelerate anything close enough to the planet, causing it to crash, but higher orbits could take geological timescales to clear, rendering them much harder to use for future satellites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Theres a ton of people working on solutions to this ranging from ground based lasers that zap junk into deep space to whatever the gently caress drone swarm bullshit greg wyler is planning with e-space - dont worry about it

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 22:45

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Any day now - just like full self-drive, hyperloop and Grimes letting the weans talk to him again.

ISL payloads launched and in service i thought. Beam hopping still a way off for all

Everyone else is still only talking about ISL

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 23:04

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Dabir posted:

Feel free to argue with my source, I'm sure I represented it poorly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg

Important part re: Kessler syndrome: Musk wants to put 42,000 satellites into space to take care of a task his competitors are doing with 3. Not 3,000, 3. He needs that many because he wants them in low orbit for lower ping, because pro gamers are totally going to use satellite internet. And they're expected to last five years before the entire cluster needs replacing.

Perhaps the person who's already got streams of satellites barely dodging each other as they cross paths should have waited for this to be a solved problem before throwing even more of his cheaply-made trash into the way of our telescopes?

I didnt watch the youtube link sorry but is 3 a reference to viasat? The service is much more limited at a higher price, like all competitors

The latest trend is for constellation size to come down, partially due to kind of negative sentiment yous are all quoting at me and partially because the investment environment isn�t what it was pre 2022. 42k is nonsense and wont happen.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 23:21

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

NotJustANumber99 posted:

theyre probably on starlink so it won't load dont be mean

Lol you�ve linked me to a 45minute youtube at 23:30 at night and told me to watch it all and prepare a point by point response, err no jog on?

I politely disagree with your/their competitor analysis of the market for leo satcoms lets leave it there lmao

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 23:39

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Scientastic posted:

I�m a bit late to the Starlink chat, but the real reason it�s bad is because it is completely unnecessary and uses vast amounts of resources to do something that no-one really needs.

Super fast low-latency internet is an absolute luxury and laggy (600ms, holy loving poo poo) satellite internet that only uses three satellites and currently costs a lot of money is a much better use of finite resources than launching 42,000 bits of short-lived junk into the sky. Starlink is not a long term solution to anything, it�s a way to make a quick buck, gently caress the consequences.

The money and resources being used to get Starlink up and running, much like everything Musk does, could be a far better employed elsewhere and make a material difference to people�s lives.

Elon Musk is a complete piece of poo poo who has somehow PRed his way into making people think he�s one of the good guys. No billionaire is one of the good guys, and if you make an exception for Elon Musk, you probably need to critically evaluate why that is.

Edit: I am old enough to remember a time before the internet, so I am still impressed when my computer starts up in less than 10 minutes and I don�t need to wait for a phone line to be free to get online.

50% of the worlds population lives without terrestrial telecoms coverage due to geography and that isn�t changing without satcoms

is this just a an elon musk culture war thing or do people have strong opinions about the other mega constellations? what�s the intuition about something like e.g. Lightspeed?

# ¿ Jul 30, 2023 12:31

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Scientastic posted:

Any low earth orbit internet is a waste of resources, higher orbital planes give perfectly good Internet for 99% of applications without needing literally thousands of launches into space. The benefits of low earth orbit satellite Internet are vastly outweighed by the negatives, and the negatives of higher orbit satellite systems are vastly outweighed by not having to poo poo up our planet even more than we already have to cut down on a few milliseconds of latency.

High speed satellite internet is not being done to service the huge numbers of people with NO internet, a slightly slower, cheaper service would still be a huge improvement on what currently exists, would be easier to maintain as a long term solution and has a lower initial outlay. Governments should provide it as a service or heavily subsidise it to make it cheaper.

Edit: the fact that Elon Musk, who has a track record of loving stupid ideas that make everything worse, thinks it�s a good thing should give you a clue that it�s not.

Well accessibility is front and centre of the business case for all these service operators and will remain so, you�ll never be able to complete with buried fibre in the developed areas of the world so de facto accessibility remains the core of the investment case

Re leo, how are you putting a gnodeb or equiv into a higher orbit? And without direct to handset service you need a feeder link and a terminal and all that additional expense (and weight on the payload). OW gen1 spent more on developing the terminal and the ground stations than it did on the constellation, its genuinely gamechanging

No idea why you�ve taken against a particular orbit configuration, especially one where the boogeyman issue you keep coming back to actually easier to manage in lower orbits lol

I get that elon musk is a prick but this is like arguing against the concept of EVs due to Tesla

# ¿ Jul 30, 2023 14:15

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Trainee PornStar posted:

This is absolute bollocks..

I work in Oxford near parks rd & when I lived in Cowley a couple years ago it used to take nearly an hour to get to work using the bus & walking the rest.

oxford is a 15 minute city it's like the go to example in the uk , it's really only american hellscapes where you are 1 hour by freeway from anything which dont qualify

it's not a SLA that you will be 15minutes from whatever you want to do or your money back, it's just a development approach which prioritises that principle

# ¿ Jul 31, 2023 10:01

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

ronya posted:

That answers "why now" but not "why that one"... there's a gazillion movement-related and public-health-surveillance-related and biosecurity-related local govt strategies and initiatives all the time

Luck of the draw, maybe

it's an accidental transplant from the US via social media osmosis where it is (probably) another astroturf from the fossil fuel lobby pushing back on any drawdown in car usage. 15 minute cities came into the conversation - organically or otherwise - because people started discussing how hosed american city planning is (quite literally a conspiracy to sell cars, robert moses etc) versus european/chinese equivalents

i have zero evidence for any of that but also that is the consequence whether it's intentional or not

Rustybear fucked around with this message at 12:15 on Jul 31, 2023

# ¿ Jul 31, 2023 12:09

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

dunno if this is still true 10 years later but:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/476635/travel-to-school.pdf

tldr 50% of primary school kids are driven to school but only 20% of secondary school kids are. given allowances for rural areas poor infrastructure etc that seems really positive tbh?

seems like one of those areas where the perception of school run mums in range rovers is wildly out from the actual reality, you probably just notice the range rover types more i guess

# ¿ Jul 31, 2023 16:42

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

keep punching joe posted:

How did they turn it around between the end of Thatcher (peak unpopular Tories) and winning the election with Major? Did they not lean heavily into 'culture wars' family values poo poo then as well?

the same faction that is currently running the labour party looked at some dodgy polling that said they were on to win and then started immediatly doing victory laps with a leader who was personally unpopular

# ¿ Aug 1, 2023 10:40

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

it's an absolutely dire investment and theyre being ruined but also theyre not selling up or exiting the market at all

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 20:55

Rustybear: Nov 16, 2006; what the thunder said

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

both obvious alternatives to "living with AI" getting to feel pretty attractive imo

are any of those people real? surely the GMG owners must have realised they can automate this stuff now

# ¿ Aug 2, 2023 11:48

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